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Question regarding Licensing

Question: If an Astaro appliance runs out of maintenance and subscriptions for other filtering services are not renewed, then under the menu tree Management | Licensing his license information continues to display that it does not expire (it shows "Expiration Date: Never"). At that point what can the owner of this appliance do with it? From what I see, he seems to be locked out (cannot login) and I find a paradox with this situation and his status of Expiration Date being "Never". This user wants to use the appliance as a VPN appliance, albeit with the Astaro software as of the date which the licensing expired. They have other Astaro appliances.
Can anyone shed some light on their entitlement?
Thanks

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0 BAlfson over 16 years ago

I think BangkokBob already knows the following, so this is for others who might have a similar question...

He just needs to renew the maintenance. The new license file will allow him to login.

If he only wants to use it for VPN, then maybe the Astaro is overkill since the basic unit includes IPS, firewalling, SMTP and HTTP Proxies, etc. How about just installing FreeS/WAN or some other VPN capability on an existing linux server? Remote Access and site-to-site capabilities are included in Windows Server.

Cheers - Bob

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0 BangkokBob over 16 years ago in reply to BAlfson

Thanks Bob,

Is there any way to explain the anomaly of needing to purchase maintenance to get access to something for you have a license that never expires? Perhaps I need to raise the question with Astaro? Perhaps there is a simple answer?
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